High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Popov is the son of Sergey Popov, the noted principal trumpeter of the USSR State Radio Symphony Orchestra. Valery Popov initially followed his father in playing the trumpet. In 1957 he changed to the bassoon. In 1959, after two years of study, he joined the Opera-Symphony State Radio and Television orchestra. In 1960 he graduated from the Musical College (in the class of Prof. V. Gorbachov) and entered Moscow Conservatoire where he studied with Prof. Teryokhin. In 1962 Popov was invited to join the Russian State Symphony Orchestra as principal bassoonist. Shortly thereafter he played the solo part in Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring under conductor Robert Craft in the presence of the composer.

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